⁴ Then Saul summoned the troops and counted them at Telaim: two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men from Judah. ⁵ Saul came to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the wadi. ⁶ He warned the Kenites,^(A) “Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came out of Egypt,^(B) go on and leave! Get away from the Amalekites, or I’ll sweep you away with them.” So the Kenites withdrew from the Amalekites.

⁷ Then Saul struck down the Amalekites^(C) from Havilah^(D) all the way to Shur,^(E) which is next to Egypt. ⁸ He captured King Agag^(F) of Amalek alive, but he completely destroyed all the rest of the people with the sword.^{(G) 9} Saul and the troops spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, goats, cattle, and choice animals,^[a] as well as the young rams and the best of everything else. They were not willing to destroy them, but they did destroy all the worthless and unwanted things.